Category: News

Academia scores higher revenues

Posted on October 12, 2022 by - News

Academia has reported revenues of £114 million for its fiscal 2022, which was 34 percent higher than last year.

The company reported it added 40 new staff to the business, bringing its total to 180, to support the delivery of its growing service portfolio from its new headquarters in Hemel Hempstead.

Academia chief commercial officer Mark McCormack said: “Our growth in the last year has been fuelled by customers who need a trusted partner who ensures they have the best technology and support in place for their day-to-day operations.

Tech Data needs some more partners for Hitachi Vantara project

Posted on October 11, 2022 by - News

Tech Data wants more partners to take Hitachi Vantara’s EverFlex offering to market.

After completing what is thought to be the first deal for the hybrid cloud solution in Europe, Tech Data says it has another one in the pipeline and as the word spreads, more opportunities are expected to emerge.

Launched earlier this year, EverFlex is a portfolio of hybrid cloud offerings, with consumption-based pricing, that automates and simplifies management of IT resources.

Arrow aims high with Sophos distribution.

Posted on October 11, 2022 by - News

Global technology provider Arrow has expanded its activity with Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, across Europe.

Channel partners and managed service providers in the U.K., France and Austria can now access Sophos’ products and services via Arrow‘s cloud delivery and management platform, ArrowSphere.

Arrow has added a suite of API-ready products from Sophos’ business portfolio to ArrowSphere, giving the channel access to a powerful choice of cybersecurity tools that can be easily rolled out across customers. Channel partners can also manage Sophos products in the cloud-native Sophos Central platform, to navigate quickly between products and across multiple customers, or via Sophos MDR – a dedicated 24/7 threat hunting, detection, investigation, and response service.

ExtraHop partners with Axians

Posted on October 11, 2022 by - News

Cloud-native network intelligence outfit, ExtraHop announced today that security and solutions provider Axians is using ExtraHop for its core security product.

Dubbed the Circle of Visibility the security package helps organisations detect, investigate, and ultimately stop advanced attacks before they can do significant damage.

Boels Rental is an early adopter and its IT manager David Maes said that it was dealing with large and evolving attack surfaces, constant threats from cybercriminals, and regulation requirements.

11:11 Systems close to getting its paws on Sungard AS recovery services

Posted on October 10, 2022 by - News

11:11 Systems says it has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire the recovery services business from Sungard AS , claiming the parties anticipate receiving bankruptcy court approval of the sale by mid-October.

The transaction is expected to close later this Autumn alongside the managed infrastructure solution provider’s simultaneous acquisition of Sungard AS cloud and managed services business.

Once these deals are complete, it says the combined resources, experience, talent, solution offerings and customer and partner ecosystems will be brought together to “establish an in-depth, comprehensive and global cyber resiliency and disaster recovery practice”.

Allurity buys Danish CSIS

Posted on October 10, 2022 by - News

Allurity has acquired Danish service provider CSIS Security Group as part of its cunning plan to become Europe’s preferred provider of tech-enabled cybersecurity services.

Founded in 2003, CSIS supports some of the most recognised brands in multiple industries throughout the Nordics, the UK, and the US.

The purchase gives Allurity’s coverage in Northern Europe and furthers its ambition of becoming Europe’s preferred cybersecurity provider.

Allurity’s acquisition will accelerate and strengthen CSIS’s strategy execution across its key lines of business: Managed Detection & Response, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Brand Protection, Emergency Response and Consultancy Services.

Edison snaps up Alfa Energy

Posted on October 10, 2022 by - News

Edison Energy is to acquire the international energy and sustainability consultancy Alfa Energy.

The big idea is that the pair will help the world’s largest and middle-market corporate, industrial and institutional clients set and meet robust sustainability commitments and navigate the choices and opportunities as they head to net-zero future.

UK-based Alfa Energy has worked with some of the world’s largest organsations to procure and manage their energy as they seek ways to meet their energy, sustainability, and technology needs.

Agilico takes over Capital Document Solutions

Posted on October 7, 2022 by - News

UK’s independent managed print services business Agilico has closed the sale of Edinburgh-based Capital Document Solutions.

The deal means that the outfit will increase its machines in field to over 40,000 and expand its customer base to over 13,000.

The deal comes just five months after the death of Capital Document Solutions MD Tom Flockhart – who founded the company in 1979.

Agilico’s last filed annual accounts, covering the year to 31 March 2021, showed flat revenues of £41.6 million and 30,000 machines in field.

BT expands global e-waste programme

Posted on October 7, 2022 by - News

BT has expanded its global e-waste programme for business customers by teaming up with networking giant Cisco to offer a new circular economy service.

Companies upgrading their network and IT infrastructure to support new multi-cloud deployments will be provided with a takeback service that will see BT environmental specialists map their sustainability requirements.

Replaced or decommissioned electronic equipment from a customer’s network will be shipped back to Cisco to be responsibility reused or recycled through its takeback and reuse programme. Up to 99.9% of what is returned will be reused or recycled, BT said.

British companies gloomy about profit outlook

Posted on October 7, 2022 by - News

British companies are the most downbeat about the outlook for their profits since late 2020.

According to figures from the British Chambers of Commerce’s (BCC) quarterly survey, this is due to widespread plans to raise prices adding to signs of gloom about the economy.

Only one in three businesses are confident their profits will increase in the coming year, while 39 percent expect a decline.

The Americans are coming

Posted on October 6, 2022 by - News

The dark satanic rumour mill has unconfirmed reports of American channel names bringing their large chequebooks across the pond, hoping to take advantage of the UK’s weak pound.

For those not in the know, the pound has been dropping against the dollar like a team of free-falling elephants, thanks to the government’s oven-ready financial plan.  While this might make some resellers want to throw themselves off the top of a high building, one reseller told Channeleye that it was attracting deep-pocketed buyers from across the pond.

One CTO expected that more British companies would fall into US hands over the coming months. The fall in the pound provided an excellent way for American companies to get a foothold in the market and purchase a strong business.

QBS brings up the curtain on Orchestra

Posted on October 6, 2022 by - News

Software delivery platform QBS has launched Orchestra as part of its cunning plan to grow new vendors in its European channel.

Orchestra will operate on the QBS Software Platform and is confident it will offer significant opportunities to its channel partners. Joshua Nicholls will run the business which has been working with five vendors who have received funding from US-based venture capital firm Insight.

Insight Partners has invested in more than 600 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO. He added they had worked together to identify the best partnership opportunities from Insight Partner’s portfolio, and as a result selected five key launch vendor partners – Keeper Security, Automox, DNS Filter, Octopus Deploy and CoreView.

Dave Stevinson, CEO of QBS Technology Group, said the time was right for the QBS platform to launch a dedicated distribution business to complement its core channel marketplace operations.

Scottish Enterprise gives Adarma £2 million

Posted on October 6, 2022 by - News

Scottish Enterprise has bunged Adarma £2 million to drive job creation and boost its development efforts.

The funding will see the cybersecurity company create 50 roles and support its roadmap in expanding its services and IP.  Apparently, the cash should spruce up Adarma’s security operation and threat management platform.

Adarma CEO John Maynard said that the cause will accelerate the company’s mission to protect the promise of cyber resilience for our customers.

IBM adds Red Hat to storage business

Posted on October 5, 2022 by - News

Biggish Blue has announced that it will add Red Hat storage product roadmaps and Red Hat associate teams to the IBM Storage business unit.

The cunning plan is to integrate the storage technologies from Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) as the foundation for IBM Spectrum Fusion. This combines IBM and Red Hat’s container storage technologies for data services and helps accelerate IBM’s capabilities in the burgeoning Kubernetes platform market.

In addition, IBM wants to offer new Ceph solutions delivering a unified and software-defined storage platform that bridges the architectural divide between the data centre and cloud providers. This further advances IBM’s leadership in the software-defined storage and Kubernetes platform markets.

Companies can’t get enough of the cloud

Posted on October 5, 2022 by - News

Beancounters at IDC claim that global compute and storage infrastructure product investments for cloud deployments grew 22.4 percent in the second quarter of 2022 to $22.6 billion.

According to IDC, spending on cloud infrastructure continues to outgrow the non-cloud segment although the latter had strong growth in the second quarter  rising 15.2 percent year on year to $17.3 billion.

Spending on shared cloud infrastructure reached $15.6 billion during the quarter, up 18.9 percent compared to a year ago.

IDC said it expects to see continuous strong demand for shared cloud infrastructure with spending expected to surpass non-cloud infrastructure spending in 2023.